Fétis and the Idea of Progress in Music

Ceulemans, Anne-Emmanuelle;Chung, Holly
(2016) Music theory & analysis — Vol. 3, n° 2, p. 166-169 (2016)

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On numerous occasions over the course of his long career, François-Joseph Fétis expressed the idea that the arts, and especially music, do not progress, even if they do change over time. In the nineteenth century this point of view was truly original, yet Fétis was sometimes led astray by the progressivist ideas of his time. As a result, his writings seem to defend the idea of progress in the arts, despite his repeated renunciation of such a notion. The present article seeks to analyze and explain this ambiguity in light of the historical and cultural context in which Fétis lived and worked.
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Ceulemans, A.-E. (2016). Fétis and the Idea of Progress in Music (H. Chung, trans.). Music theory & analysis, 3(2), 166-169. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/182777 (Original work published 2016)